Online reading comprehension in English for Spanish university students: student and teacher strategies

• Autores: Barry Pennock-Speck, Carmen Gregori Signes
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The research we are reporting on here was carried out within a project financed by the Universitat de València on reading online in English for freshmen students. One of our main aims is to find out whether an online foundation course in reading comprehension in English would be welcomed by the students. A second objective is to gather insights into how students read online texts, especially with regard to the strategies they use to negotiate texts in English as only in this way can one design effective teaching materials. Finally, our research looks into whether it is necessary to provide students with guidance on how to read electronic texts in English. The research we discuss here covers objective two and three. In order to see what strategies non-native students use to tackle reading material in English we filmed six students while they carried out three exercises online, that is, a reading comprehension exercise, a cloze exercise and a synonym exercise. Due to space limitations we will only look at the reading exercise here. Our results point to the fact that students do need a certain amount of instruction to take advantage of the resources available and guidance in metacognitive monitoring and control.